Children with disabilities, and their families, may face discrimination in the hospitals and clinics they visit for their health care, according to a new study led by researchers at University of Utah ...

A new study, co-authored by Harvard researchers and analysts from the Center for Science in the Public Interest, suggests there's a systematic bias in nutrition studies funded by food companies. For ...

Asking questions about the facts behind a recommendation can help sort out an advisor’s biases and conflicts of interest, a new study suggests. Processing Content The findings of the experimental ...

A new study in the Journal of Forensic Sciences suggests the role medical examiners play in the criminal justice system is far more subjective than commonly thought. It also suggests their analysis ...

My prior two posts reviewed every study I could find addressing the issue of gender bias in peer-reviewed science. The first one laid out some general principles and pointed out that the answers ...

In August 2022 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking prohibiting covered entities, which include health care providers and health plans, from ...

Little is known about how racism and bias may be communicated in the medical record. This study used machine learning to analyze electronic health records (EHRs) from an urban academic medical center ...

Many studies criticize student evaluations of teaching as biased or a poor measure of teaching effectiveness, or both. But none of these papers are as expansive as a new metastudy of more than 100 ...

A spate of reports examine the liberal bent of academe, revealing some real research leavened with partisan bickering In recent years, conservatives have referred in public to a “growing body of ...

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